Package: acpi-support
Version: 0.103-1
Severity: important
as recently seen on slashdot [1], acpi ends up repeatedly load cycling
certain hard disks on ubuntu [2].
it is now confirmed that this problem affects debian sid as well (i have
not tested this on etch or before). my Load_Cycle_Count is now at 718,694.
this is very bad because the average Load_Cycle_count before failure for
most hard disks is 600,000.
$ smartctl -a /dev/hda | grep 193
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 001 001 000 Old_age Always
- 718694
i have a dell inspiron 8200 notebook and an IDE hard disk:
$ hdparm -i /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Model=ST9100823A, FwRev=3.07, SerialNo=3LG0V07X
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=8192kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=195371568
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
AdvancedPM=yes: unknown setting WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 2: ATA/ATAPI-1,2,3,4,5,6
a temporary solution is to disable advanced power management for the hard
disk:
$ hdparm -B 255 /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
setting Advanced Power Management level to disabled
thanks for the hard work.
[1] http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/10/30/1742258.shtml
[2] https://launchpad.net/bug59695.html
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (400, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages acpi-support depends on:
ii acpid 1.0.6-4 Utilities for using ACPI power man
ii dmidecode 2.9-1 Dump Desktop Management Interface
ii finger 0.17-11 user information lookup program
ii hdparm 7.7-1 tune hard disk parameters for high
ii laptop-detect 0.13.2 attempt to detect a laptop
ii libc6 2.6.1-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii lsb-base 3.1-24 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii nvclock 0.8b2-1 Allows you to overclock your nVidi
ii powermgmt-base 1.29 Common utils and configs for power
ii radeontool 1.5-5 utility to control ATI Radeon back
ii toshset 1.72-6 Access much of the Toshiba laptop
ii vbetool 0.7-1.1 run real-mode video BIOS code to a
ii x11-xserver-utils 7.3+1 X server utilities
acpi-support recommends no packages.
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